Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Alphabet, On The Rocks

her comment... I wanted these when I first saw it on ZRecs. You premium bloggers and your amazing samples! *shaking fist in the air menacingly*Jojo is letter CRAZED...he would love letter ice. Also maybe I could make letter muffins? I'm pretty handy with the muffin batter. This would be fun for a birthday, to spell out the person's name in 3-D like that.

their comment... Might be tempting to "grease the skids" on some letters with a little petroleum jelly (mold release), then spray a bit of metallic color with sparkles, then fill them with silicon caulking gel. After they set up, I could put my email address in high-tech "Photo-shopped" solids on my bumper.

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Sillycone's signature products are Letter Ice ($20) and Number Ice ($10) trays. These are not only cute, but a fun way to encourage your child to practice counting and spelling. Roo is obsessed with spelling these days, so she was very excited to try Letter Ice. We decided to make strawberry Jello for our initial test (please excuse my hideous baking sheets):

Pouring unset Jello from a bowl into the Letter Ice trays was slightly awkward. I ended up using a measuring cup (1/4 c.) and ladling the Jello into each cavity. Yes, my fingers looked like I was a blood-thirsty serial killer. But look what we ended up with!

The Jello wanted to stick in the Letter Ice trays (see the Frankenstein-y "R" that I tried to remove first) but I remembered this Sillycone tip: flash-freeze the trays for 10 minutes before unmolding. Worked like a charm. And Roo was THRILLED!

Honestly, my kids weren't really into eating the Jello once it was made, so I think we will stick to the ice tray application. Or maybe brownies. I also love the idea of spelling out a kid's name in colored letters and embedding them into a clear glycerine soap. I told Bob I might do that for holiday gifts and his eyes said "sure, you will." A girl can dream! Melting leftover crayon nubblins or homemade sidewalk chalk would be fun, too. Endless options abound, obviously. Geeky tech folks will be excited to see the upcoming Symbol Ice trays, too.

To enter and win your own set of Letter Ice and Number Ice trays (a $30 value), please comment on this post with what you would spell first and what you would make it out of!

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I love the symbols. And hey- we have the same cookie sheets! LOL. These would also be a fun idea for Gray's 3rd birthday coming up! I could spell something fun out for him or celebrate the upcoming arrival of Ivy!

My first word to spell would be my last name for family birthdays and I'd try to make cupcakes or cookies for it. I think all my nieces and nephews would get a kick out of it! jeepcutie82 at msn dot com

There are a number of things I would do with these, but I think first I would do is my son's name for his b-day in cake or brownies. He also is a huge fan of Word World cartoon, so it would be fun to make words in frozen juice for the "word of the day" type thing. Thanks for the chance to win!

Well, let's see. I think I would make the traditional jello first for my trial run and I would make a game of it by placing all the letters in the center and go around the table; each person picks one letter. When the letters are all dispersed, each person has to make a word. The best or longest wins!As you can see, I think these look fun!Personally, I love the geeky ones best!

What a great idea these are. I would use this to spell out each of our kids names for their birthday's. I would also use this for holidays, to spell out things like Happy Halloween, Happy Spring and stuff like that. Love this idea! Thanks for this giveaway.

love the soap project! i would make some for our friends and family for christmas! it would be neat to spell out their last names and find a cute little soap dish!also, being a teacher i could think of tons of uses for it in the classroom!thanks!moore.g at insideconnect.net

These are cute. I would freeze Kool-aid in them and use them as ice cubes. I would also spell out my son and daughters names (Gracie and Joey) using jello and let them eat them with their fingers for a dessert. Being a room mom for my daughter class at school, these would be great to make treats for their parties. I would love to win these. Thanks for the chance. ecghick@yahoo.com

I wanted these when I first saw it on ZRecs. You premium bloggers and your amazing samples! *shaking fist in the air menacingly*Jojo is letter CRAZED...he would love letter ice. Also maybe I could make letter muffins? I'm pretty handy with the muffin batter. This would be fun for a birthday, to spell out the person's name in 3-D like that.

My son's 5th birthday is next month and I hate big birthday cakes so I like to make lots of cupcakes and lay them across the table. It would be really cute to line them up and put one chocolate letter on each one so it spells out Happy Birthday Ben!

These are so cool!! I love using the Jello idea. I'm a speech therapist, so I'd probably use them with my kindergarteners and 1st graders in learning to sound out and spell simple words. They could also pick out the letter of the sound that I make! I'm always looking for new ideas...thanks for showing me these!

I am a Teacher and I teach children with Autism. Children with Autism love to learn using their senses so what a great way for them to learn spelling while they get to smell, touch and eat the letters. So we would spell out names, sight words and any other words we could come up with.

My kids are all about putting cups of water in the freezer to freeze right now - so I think we would do their names in ice to start off with! Then I'd love to try the Jello and see how they like that. :)

For my twins' birthday coming up I'd bake their names in cake and put "Happy Birthday" ice cubes in the punch cups. (I had no idea you could freeze AND bake in this stuff, how cool!)Kris Hickeysendmyspamto@hotmail.com

I would spell out supercalifragilisticexpialadocious for my daughter who loves the Sound of Music. I would bake 2 pans of chocolate brownies and connect them and use red and white icing in the ice trays. She would be thrilled. geri.durantatgmail.com

Hello, This is definitely a fun contest! September is the birthday month for our family! I would spell out the various names on each birthday. The first would be my oldest son, Spencer! Thanks, Cindijchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com

I would spell out both of my boys' names, then let them gobble them up!! Then I would 'write' a little note to my hubby that it's time to start trying for a girl!! ;) HEHE! These are great and I'd love to win them!! Thanks for the chance!

I would spell out the whole alphabet for my son who is learning his letters and maybe try making brownies out of it so that he will find them more interesting to eat! Thanks for the opportunity. These molds look great! uke9000 AT gmail DOT com

I think I would use them as decorators chocolate letters for birthday cakes :) Wouldn't they look so cute and professional on a cake? I would spell out Happy Birthday Mia (my daughter) because she's got the next birthday coming up :)

(The butter example is hilarious, but wow that's a lot of butter on that pancake)

I would spell out HELP! since I have 3 boys under 3. Just kidding...I would spell out my little guys' names in butter for pancakes or ice for sippy cups. What a cute idea!darbiesmommie[at]gmail[dot]com

I have 4 kids and I can't pick one of their names to spell first (there would be a fight about it), I would spell our dog's name first, and her name is Faith because the was the only puppy that survived out of her litter. Then I would spell "thanks" because this is such a cute prize.

Oh I am the class mommy at my sons school and I would just use all the letters to let the kids spell out whatthey want to! But I am sure that I would spell out my kids names for birthday parties! Thanks for the chance to win!

I would spell out my daughter's name in brownies or white chocolate.I wonder if you can put meatloaf in and make tiny meat letters.That would thrill my picky eater.Thank you for the contest.-Allietonylethal@aol.com